Fortune Is a Woman
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Elizabeth Adler
A runaway heiress . . . a legacy of shame . . . an empire built on blood and revenge . . .The three met in the aftermath of San Francisco's devastating 1906 earthquake—the Mandarin Lai Tsin, a runaway American heiress, and a young Englishwoman. Against all odds they made their dreams come true, building one of the world’s largest trading companies and most luxurious hotels. . . . They had only each other—and bloody secrets to bury even as they rose to dizzying heights, wary of love yet vulnerable to passion in its most dangerous forms. . . . The Mandarin would pass his multi-billion-dollar empire only to the women in the Lai Tsin dynasty—along with one last devastating truth. . . . Sweeping from the turn of the century through the 1960’s, from the Orient to San Francisco and New York, Elizabeth Adler has written a magnificent novel of new wealth and old privilege, family passions and secret shame, of women surviving, triumphant, in the riveting saga of romantic intrigue.
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Author
Elizabeth Adler
Pages
592
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Published Date
2010-01-20
ISBN
0307574687 9780307574688
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"A novel about a claims adjuster who falls for a married woman who may or may not be involved in an insurance fraud. 1953.<br/><br/>Full review (and recommendations!) at <a href="http://anotherlookbook.com/fortune-is-a-woman-winston-graham/">Another look book</a><br/><br/>I picked this one up on a whim and immediately found myself sucked in. It builds gradually over the first 40 pages or so, but after that it's just non-stop action/mystery/suspense. It's well-written, too (by the same author who wrote the Poldark series), so almost on that merit alone it stands out in the crime/suspense genre. The foreshadowing isn't too heavy-handed, either, which is something else that can be exaggerated in this type of book. <br/><br/>As I was reading, it kept making me think of a Cary Grant movie, something like North by Northwest. In some ways, I saw it as a period piece, as it's essentially about what happened after WWII when many families found they could no longer afford to maintain the "old" lifestyle--historic mansion, sprawling estate, large collection of antiques. In that way, and for the suspense part, it reminded me of Sarah Waters' The Little Stranger. Except, you know, without all that ghost stuff...<br/><br/>In all, a very satisfying read."
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